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| Year : 1986 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 172-181 |
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Pharmacognosy of swietenia mahagoni bark drug
Manisha Sanyal (Sarkar), PC Datta
Botanical Lab of Pharmaco - anatomy, University College of Science,Calcutta - 700 019, India
Correspondence Address:
P C Datta
Botanical Lab of Pharmaco - anatomy, University College of Science,Calcutta - 700 019
India
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Swietenia mahagoni Jacq. (native to tropical America), a common avenue tree of India, yields a bark drug, used as antipyretic, bitter tonic, astringent, and occasionally as a substitute for Cinchona. The district characteristics of the species are : blackish brown colour; cracks and fissures with both clean cut and thick recurved edges; irregular wrinkles; splintery and fibrous fractures; bitter taste; compound sieve plates; mostly biseriate rays; abundant rhomboidal crystals; presence of tannin, saponin, lignin and absence of alkaloids. |
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